Dump truck, semi end up in rural Manitoba ditch after highway crash

A dump truck and a semi ended up in a ditch in the RM of Ste. Anne after a crash Monday, Manitoba RCMP say.

The incident took place just after 2 p.m. on the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Richer. A dump truck being used to haul dirt was headed east, police said, and was trying to turn right on Road 42E, when it was hit from behind by the semi.

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Both vehicles went into the ditch, and the drivers both needed to be extricated from their vehicles — a process the Richer Fire Department said took two-and-a-half hours.

The dump truck driver, 53, from Steinbach, and the 73-year-old semi driver, from the RM of Whitemouth, are both in stable condition in hospital.

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